How many years can the tree sparrow live?

Tree sparrows usually live for 7-8 years. Tree sparrows have mixed feeding habits, mainly feed on plant foods such as grain, grass, seeds and fruits, and also eat a large number of insects, especially nestlings, almost all on insects and insect larvae during reproduction. Generally speaking, they are local resident birds and breed locally.

1. The habitat of tree sparrows

Tree sparrow is a widely distributed, numerous and most common bird in the world, which mainly lives in human living environment, whether in mountains, plains, hills, grasslands, swamps and farmland, or in towns and villages. The habitat is 300-2500 meters above sea level and can even reach 4500 meters in Xizang area of China. Sparrows live in a mixed environment, but they usually live in or near residential areas. Most of them look for food and rest in fixed places; the range of activities during the day is mostly within 2-3 kilometers, and at night they hide in eaves caves or nearby soil caves, caves and woods next to the village.

What kind of food does the tree sparrow eat?

Eating habits are more miscellaneous, mainly to grain, grass, seeds, fruits and other plant food, but also eat a large number of insects during reproduction, especially nestlings, almost all feed on insects and insect larvae. According to a large number of studies on the feeding habits of sparrows by scholars all over the country from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, the food of tree sparrows mainly feeds on the seeds of various crops. For example, in the stomachs of more than 800 birds examined in Hebei in the whole year, various crops account for 52.22% of the annual food intake, and the rest are crops and wild plant seeds, of which crop seeds are mainly grains, wheat grains, rice, millet, etc.; chicks feed almost entirely on insects, especially beetles and other Coleoptera insects, followed by Lepidoptera and Homoptera.